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Galsworthy and Human Battles on the Home Front

Reveille No1 p88Digital Drama produces First World War Exhibition and Audio Tour for the Rose Theatre, Kingston.

Author and Nobel Laureate John Galsworthy is best known for ‘The Forsyte Saga’, which dramatised social class and life in Edwardian England. However, his campaigning for injured servicemen from the First World War has gone almost entirely unnoticed, until now.

Born on Kingston Hill in 1867 and although too old for active service in the First World War, Galsworthy worked for a time as a hospital orderly in France. This contributed to his determination to argue through essays and articles for rehabilitation of wounded servicemen.

Commissioned by the Rose Theatre, Kingston, Digital Drama’s latest audio-visual exhibition draws on the collection of Galsworthy archives; letters, poems and journals which are narrated alongside recordings of local residents of the Borough of Kingston remembering their family stories from the First World War.

Galsworthy and Human Battles on the Home Front runs at the Rose Theatre, Kingston from the 1st September – 25th October 2014. Guided tours are available between 12-4 pm. The audio trail is available to download for free via the ‘Rose Theatre Projects’ App on iTunes and Google Play.

For more information on the venue, times and special offers go to the Rose Theatre’s website.

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Global Feast

Global-Feast-Final-Flier-aDigital Drama are delighted to have been commissioned for a second year by Global Arts Kingston to produce their programme for the Kinston Connections festival.

Global Feast is an oral history project which focuses on bringing to life the heritage of Kingston’s Tamil, Chinese, Korean, Gujarati, Punjabi and Afro-Caribbean communities through food. It will explore recipes, dishes and feasts brought to Kingston by members of these communities and their relatives and ancestors as they made Kingston their home and brought the flavours, tastes and smells of their homeland with them. It will provide opportunities for cultures from different communities to compare how recipes were handed down to them and explore the regional and family variations in their meals and feasts or celebrations. The theme of food will provide a focal point for the exploration of a much wider heritage around cultural identity.

Global Feast will be part of Kingston Connections, 21-29 June 2014 at The Rose Theatre and will also be featured on the Global Arts Kingston website.

Global Feast is supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund and Awards for All

 

 

 

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Unearthing Family Treasures from the First World War

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Help the Rose Theatre unearth Kingston’s treasures from the First World War

Do you have family memorabilia to share from the First World War? The Rose Theatre are looking to borrow treasures, photographs and documents for a major exhibition to mark this important centenary.

We are interested in life on the home front as well as on the battle field and are keen to represent all the communities of Kingston. 

Images, artefacts and recorded memories will conjure up Kingston during the First World War in this interactive audio trail at the Rose Theatre in September 2014.

Writings and diaries from local Nobel playwright and campaigner John Galsworthy will be supported with voices and memories of the community; from the home front and battlefield. Supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund and created by Digital Drama, this major exhibition will evoke the sounds and sacrifice of a generation steeped in war.

If you have family memorabilia from the First World War and can help us in our call to action, please click on the ‘Get Involved’ button below to give us your details or email alisonramsey@digitaldrama.org or call on 077525205148

Deadline for contributions: March 28th 2014

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How To Be A Heroine – Acclaimed new book from playwright Samantha Ellis

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Playwright Samantha Ellis has received great literary acclaim for her new book ‘How To Be A Heroine; Or, what I learned from reading too much’, published by Random House.

Digital Drama are delighted for Samantha and excited to be working with her on our forthcoming film ‘Liberation’. The drama tells the true story of young Marcel, taken in by a glamorous Folies Bergere dancer when his parents are interned in wartime Paris.

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Guardian Review

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Galsworthy and Human Battles on the Home Front Exhibition 2014

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In September 2014, Digital Drama will be producing an audio visual exhibition for The Rose Theatre, Kingston to mark the centenary of the First World War.

The project will focus on the campaigning work of local writer and Nobel prize winner John Galsworthy, known best for the trilogy The Forsyte Saga. The author’s letters, poems and journals have never before been exhibited in his home town and will be on loan from the archives of Birmingham University. The collection will be displayed at the theatre alongside local memorabilia and recorded family stories from the home front in Kingston.

Digital Drama are recruiting a team of local volunteers to help with this exciting project, which is supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund. Volunteers will be researching and recording local memories, finding artefacts and delving into the archives of Kingston during the First World War. We are recruiting volunteers from across the Borough of Kingston who have  strong interest in local history, ability to work in a team and are available for a few hours a week between January and May 2014. Training will be given in archiving and recording skills and volunteers will be based at The Rose Theatre and Kingston’s Local History Room.

If you are interested in applying for the volunteer team, please click the link below and complete the online form.

Deadline for application 7th February 2014.

Volunteer Application Form

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